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As we can only talk about the machines we have actually tested it does limit us a little to the wide range that Dell offer.  But here are our Top 3!

1. Studio 15 – This may not be a high end laptop, but not everyone can afford a Precision or XPS Studio!  The Studio 15 starts at around £399 and comes with the options to be a very  powerful or gaming laptop.  Intel Core Duo 2 Processors, up to 4GB Memory, Running Windows Vista, Graphics Card from 128MB!  Perfect for the average home gamer!  These laptops are stylish and well built and best of all great value for money!  Can’t be bad!
2. Latitude E5500 – Starting at around £530 this isn’t a cheap business laptop, but neither is it a really expensive one with some great like back-lit keyboard, ambient light sensor as well as all the usual stuff this laptop has incredible battery life, one user in particular can’t believe how good it is.  If you are looking for a machine that will give you a long time running the machine away from a power source then the Latitude E5500 is a certain.  We haven’t reviewed the E5500 but here is our review of the E6500 which is a similar machine!
3. XPS M1330 – This neat little laptop is brilliant, although no cheap.  For anyone who wants a lightweight, small notebook this should definitely be considered.  With options for high memory and a decent graphics card it is really a showy off laptop!  Read our Dell XPS M1330 Reviews:

• Dell XPS M1330 – Long Term Test

• Dell XPS M1330 Crimson Red Laptop Review

RED is a global fund put together to help the fight against AIDS in Africa. In January 08, Dell and Microsoft joined together to support the cause by creating a RED Product Range. Dell and Microsoft are only the most recent companies to join the product range, already RED have support from Motorola, American Express, Gap, Giorgio Armani, Converse, Apple and Hallmark. The links take you to the RED section for each company to see what they are providing for the charity and how they got involved. You may be thinking, “well this is good but I bet it’ll cost me loads more money to buy the products!” Well it doesn’t! It’s at no extra cost to you, you just have to buy the product and the company that the product is from will give some of its’ profit to the charity.

The products in the Dell RED collection are Printer 948 (PRODUCT) RED, XPS M1530 (PRODUCT) RED, XPS M1330 (PRODUCT) RED and XPS One. Microsoft’s RED Product Collection isn’t quite as expansive as the other companies involved, however it is as equally as interesting. Their RED Product is Windows Vista Ultimate (Product) RED which has been put on all of the Dell Laptops and Desktops mentioned previously in this blog article.

Want to find out a bit more about the charity and what they actually do? The image above is RED’s ‘mission statement’, click on it and you’ll go the the site. On the website there is also an about page.

The site also has some cool features which help publicise RED (e.g. Community Tool Kit and Impact Cards.) Also there is an Impact Calculator which shows you how the money you have spent has helped the organisation by showing you what different products can buy the charity.

We think this is a great way for some of the big companies to get really behind a need in this world and one that we can be part of too!  Fantastic Idea!